Contractors and Landscapers
Are you a landscapes professional such as a landscape architect, designer, landscaper, stone mason or garden center staff and what to know more about RainScapes? Then you have come to the right place! Landscape professionals are key to the success of widespread adoption of RainScapes on private property throughout Montgomery County.
Learning how to provide services to your clientele such as rain gardens and native landscape gardens go a long way in helping the county reduce stormwater pollution and solve drainage issues for property owners.
The RainScapes program offers landscape professionals specialized training from general education to installation techniques and proper site assessments to look for problem areas. By taking a Rainscapes training, you can become familiar on all aspects related to RainScaping.
RainScapes training is not a certification program.
Two certification programs are now offered in the region:
Professionals attending RainScapes classes have been allowed to use them as continuing education credits for LACES (Landscape Architects), NGICP and CBLP.
RainScapes developed two technical manuals; one for rain gardens (PDF) and one for permeable interlocking concrete pavement (PDF). These manuals cover project sizing, estimating treatment capacity and include sections detailing construction. Also included in the Rain Garden technical manual are simple rain garden templates.
RainScapes Contractor List
The RainScapes Contractor List (PDF) contains the names of companies whose employees have taken a Rainscapes Contractors training class and is provided to you for informational purpose only.
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